Stage Force receives three grant awards

Kittery, Maine-based theater company Kent Stephens' Stage Force received a series of key grant awards that put the group on solid financial footing for the start of the new year.

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Posted Jan. 17, 2013 at 2:00 AM

Posted Jan. 17, 2013 at 2:00 AM

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Kittery, Maine-based theater company Kent Stephens' Stage Force received a series of key grant awards that put the group on solid financial footing for the start of the new year.

Two of the grants — for $5,000 from the Maine Theater Fund, and for $2,500 from the Rosamund T. Thaxter Foundation — will go to support the company's three key strategic goals: growing audiences for their acclaimed Main Stage program, unifying and expanding their brand, and strengthening staff and infrastructure. The third grant of $5,000 from the Horne Family Foundation is specifically for support of Stage Force's exciting new "sustainability project": the commission of a new play about the sustainability struggles in the fishing industry in New England, Finding Fish, from nationally renowned playwright Carlyle Brown.

The foundation awards follow a significant grant in 2012 from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Piscataqua Region, which helped provide operating support for all Stage Force Programs last year.